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2009-02-23

Having cave walls decorated with aquatic flowering plants is perfectly natural at Näckrosen, a subway station in Solna Municipality. After all, näckros is the Swedish word for European White Waterlily or White Lotus.

Now that is a simply extraordinary coincidence. Yesterday evening I was reading an art magazine about how many European underground stations were decorated and saw almost exactly your photo! ;-) Love it!

I've made several attempts to get decent photos from this particular station. Still not entirely happy but this one felt OK.

JM: Our trains used to be green but that was a couple of decades ago. I agree, these ones look real good.

m_m: The Stockholm subway is a treasure as far as art is concerned.

cieldequimper: That does sound like quite a coincidence. Then again, I have friends who don't believe at all in coincidences. I'm sure they'd have some explanation for this as well but we won't ask them! ;)

madeforjoy: Thanks!

Halcyon: I agree, it's a wonderful concept. We've got another station where the entire sky has been brought down into the cave. Well, sort of. Art-wise.